Saturday, July 20, 2013

Welcome to day two of Joseph Eastwood's Blog Tour leading up to the cover reveal for Lumen! In this post, we get to ask our favorite YA author his Top 10 Fantasy Books/Series! Ready? Let's go!

It was originally going to be just books,
until I realised that most of my favourites are actually part of a series. As a
fantasy author, I love to read fantasy and see what other writers are putting
out there, partly because I love the genre, and another part is so that I can
get a feel for a how other authors build their fantasy worlds.

I feel, looking back on the list that I’m
lacking in indie authors as they’re all traditionally published and quite
mainstream.

10. The House of Night novels by P.C &
Kristen Cast

This series is my guilty pleasure of
fantasy books. I’ve only read the first five, because after that everything
started to get really silly, and I found myself rolling my eyes. But, I did
love it, and I know that I shouldn’t. Do
you have a guilty pleasure book?

9. The Study Series by Maria V. Snyder

These alongside number 8 on the list, have
been some of the books that I have gone to sleep dreaming about, and the way in
which these authors have crafted their worlds has been something that I aspire
to be able to do.

8. The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi
Canavan

I bought the first book in this trilogy at
a high school book sale thingy, and I remember sitting on the landing outside
my bedroom (because I didn’t have a light in my room) and I would sit out there
for a good couple of hours every night reading through this one book. I
absolutely loved this series, as well as her other series. (She writes very
thick book… very thick!)

7. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Before this book I’d never read anything
about angels or nephilim, or any kind of religious-based fantasy book, and I
loved it. I found myself reacting like a typical teenage girl… and I was around
17 at the time, and I was there squealing in attraction for bad boy Patch, and
all the plot twists and turns. So, it definitely earned its spot on my list.

6. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Again, I’ve not read anything with a
religious-base already set, but, I guess it can work to the advantage of the
reader as growing up, you learn about different religions, and I was always
interested in Greek mythology, and after reading this book, I was absorbed and
wanted to learn more… unfortunately, I didn’t, but I have a couple more from
the series on my to-read list.

5. The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan

I never wanted to read this series in the
beginning because he’d written his name into his books, and I felt that was
silly, but getting over that, I realised that these were amazing, and I read
the whole sage within a month. I loved how unique everything in the books were,
definitely magical feeling when that happens.

4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Dragons… oh my dragons! One of my favourite
fantasy books, and loving dragons doesn’t go amiss. I’ve never tried to write
about dragons, but I love to read books about them. Also, the author was a huge
inspiration as he was published at a young age.

3. The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delany

After meeting the author when I was 11 or
12 on a school trip, I bought his first two books, both signed, and I read them
immediately. It’s when I first started to tell people that I wanted to be a
writer and write books like him, and my teachers encouraged it.

2. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

I think this is an essential to any fantasy
book lovers reading diet. From the characters to the world building, this book,
and his other books are amazing.

1. The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling

Growing up with these books and the films,
it’s hard not to put the whole series at number one. I can re-read and re-watch
any of them, and I’m still always excited, and I still always find something
that I didn’t realise or pick-up on before.

There you have it. That’s my top ten
fantasy books/series. If you have a top ten list of your own, don’t forget to
leave it in the comments section below!

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About the Author

JOSEPH EASTWOOD, born 9th June 1993,
Lancaster, England, has always been adamant in his dreams of being a published
author. Although he has been through the stages of wanting to be in every other
profession under the sun, and what better way to live out all of those
professions than to be an author and create people with them.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Savior is formerly known as The Birth of Jaiden by Jennifer
Malone Wright, it has been re-edited, a little bit of new content added and
given a new name and new cover.

Description:

Savior (A Higher Collective Novel)

Alexander Lucas is a man of faith, casino owner and vampire.
He should be living the Reno high life of riches and immortality. Instead, he
wakes each night despising the blood on his hands and begging for a reason to
continue on.

The last beat of his heart took place shortly after losing his family to a
gruesome and violent death. One snowy night, the creature who had been stalking
him finally took his life, in turn giving him the gift of immortality. Yet,
immortality to Alex is not a gift, but rather a curse to live in eternal pain.

Nearly a century of tortured existence leads him to a dumpster in a dark alley
where he finds a reason for continuing on. Nestled between bits of debris and
rubbish a tiny infant wails for help. He calls for his best friend and guardian
angel, Danielle, who explains to him that he has been chosen to raise this
baby, for she would someday become a very powerful, natural witch. She tells
him it is now his job to protect her from the enemy who wants her so badly, yet
also to be her father.

Thinking this angel is out of her mind, Alex refuses many times until Danielle
convinces him that the enemy, Malcolm and his wife Levine, cannot obtain the
child and that they are, indeed attempting to find her. He must keep her safe,
because if evil hands raise her than she will grow to possess the power to
annihilate them all.

Luckily, Alex is not alone, he has The Higher Collective to assist in his
mission. With the combined powers of the Vampires, Angels, Dark Angels, Witches
and Warlocks, The Higher Collective prepares for a battle to protect the child
from the evil she may possibly inherit.

Jennifer Malone Wright is best known for her short story series, The Vampire
Hunter's Daughter. Other works include the follow up to The Vampire Hunter's Daughter
series called The Arcadia Falls Chronicles and her vampire novel called Savior.
Jennifer also co-authors a series called Once Upon A Zombie Apocalypse.

She resides in the beautiful mountains of northern Idaho with her husband
and five children where she practices preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Just
kidding!

But seriously, between the craziness of taking care of her children,
Jennifer has little time left for herself. The time she does have left, usually
leading far into the night, is spent working on her beloved fiction or chatting
with her equally crazy friends.

Jennifer also loves coffee, has a passionate affair with red bull, wishes
the sushi were better where she lives and dances while she cleans.